Everton manager Frank Lampard admits he doesn’t know how Vitalii Mykolenko copes with his family being back in war-torn Ukraine but insists the player is continuing to get support from his club.
Mykolenko led the Blues out as captain for Thursday night’s 2-0 win over non-league Boreham Wood in the FA Cup fifth round.
Speaking in the pre-match press conference for Monday’s Premier League trip to Tottenham Hotspur, a Sky Sports reporter stated they had heard that Mykolenko’s father was fighting on the frontline in Ukraine following the Russian invasion and asked Lampard how a 22-year-old living in a new country would deal with that kind of pressure.